Have you ever found yourself endlessly clicking through repetitive steps in Excel, wishing there was a way to make the process smarter and faster? While Power Query is a fantastic option for ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

If you need to combine like-for-like datasets in several Excel worksheets into one table, don't waste time and risk making mistakes by doing this manually. Instead, use Excel's powerful Power Query ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. Power Query is a data ...

Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

You probably think of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends. For hackers, though, it's a lot of fun. Like the ...